Ten-year-old Josh is on the wrestling team but would much rather be a cheerleader.
Josh loves dolls, fashion and desperately wants to cheer. As he continually argues his case with his school?s…
2009
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Ten-year-old Josh is on the wrestling team but would much rather be a cheerleader.Josh loves dolls, fashion and desperately wants to cheer. As he continually argues his case with his school?s strict Mother Superior, his mother, Andrea, searches for her own answers on how to convince Josh that aspiring to be on the cheerleading squad, relishing the art of the French braid and calling Maria von Trapp his most influential role model is just not what little boys do!
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?In jail there are no castes. Everyone is equal.?As two nations? uneasy armies face each other across the Indian-Pakistani border, Ramchand, an 8-year old Hindu Pakistani village boy of the Untouchable caste, followed soon by his worried father, wanders across the nearby border into India, setting off a chain of events that will test the love and endurance of a family, but proves that even in the most unlikely places understanding and affection can be found.
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Just because you?re a member of the AARP doesn?t mean you have to stop fighting.In the tune of nursery rhymes and musicals, veteran director Pam Walton (Liberty: 3 Stories About Life and Death, Call to Witness) presents Raging Grannies, a group who uses quirky street theater to protest causes dear to them. From women?s rights to anti-military recruiting, the antics of these grannies will surely pique your curiosity.
Preceded by: The Response; 20min; Director: Adam Rodgers
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For these officers, facing their feelings is more dangerous than dodging bullets.Jamil is a young French-Algerian rookie whose hotheaded approach to criminals makes him the odd man out at the Parisian police department, where he?s been assigned to. Emilie is his superior, a forty-something narcotics captain with the death of one of her men on her conscience. Brought together over shootouts, drug busts, and stakeouts, the two struggle to infiltrate a complex underworld connection but keep getting sidetracked by Jamil?s family, not to mention their growing desire for each other.
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In China's X'ian province, the earth is hard; the landscape, bare: factories, mountains, rocks, rivers and snow.Austerity is the order of the day; solitude, the norm; life, a slow pace. Perfectly mirroring the landscape and its sleepwalking inhabitants, Night Train is the tale of a desperate and withdrawn woman, simultaneously buffered and distanced from people around her, from her work, from her life- yet reaching out for human contact.
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A gritty depiction of survival alongside a tumultuously changing city.After having just moved to Brooklyn from South America, Marta (Blanca Lewin) quickly becomes exploited by both the city and her roommate?s brother, Eddie. Otherwise alone, she waits anxiously for her Chilean boyfriend, Alvaro, to arrive in the city, alleviate her homesickness, and piece her world back together.
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What?s most important in your life?Recipient of the Audience Award, Special Grand Prize of the Jury and Public Prize for the Best Canadian Film at the 2008 Montreal World Film Festival, The Necessities of Life tells the moving story of Tivii, an Inuit hunter diagnosed with a lung condition, uprooted from the warmth and familiarity of his family and confined to a sanitarium in a strange, foreign civilization. Stripped of his ability to communicate and disoriented by isolation, his will to live is slowly weakened.
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All the mysteries of the Universe...explained! ...Sort of.
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It?s witchcraft against the mob in this compelling adventure to save one man?s kidnapped son.All hell breaks loose when Aidai, an old Kazakh healer living off the land of rich businessman Batyr, is kicked out of her sacred home by local gangsters to make room for the construction of a gas station. Soon following the disappearance of the mystical shaman, the gas station is burned down, and, consequently, Batyr?s young son is kidnapped as ransom for the unexplained damage. Now, Batyr must find Aidai, as she may be the only one to help locate and save his son.